THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT 



Figure 8. "The average voter in a large town brings into politics a mentality utterly 

 different from that of the country voter. It is the mind of the propertyless wage-earner, of 

 the clerk, of the shop assistant, of the day laborer, of a man herded with other man and 

 profoundly affected by the herd instinct, of a man of weak individuality, of a man who 

 spends his working hours doing things for other people, and his leisure hours in having things 

 done for him by other people ; of a man whose life is passed in surroundings entirely created 

 by machinery, and in circumstances where his free will is perpetually constrained by an 

 artificial environment, who is never brought into contact with the real origins of things, and 

 is incapable of realizing the mesh of causation in which he is entangled." — AUcync Ireland. 



